Name: X series of Majorana Lectures/1 - Josh Winn - The search for exoplanets
Start: 2021-01-22T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-01-22T18:00:00+01:00
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X series of Majorana Lectures/1 - Josh Winn - The search for exoplanets

Friday, 22 January 2021 - 16:00

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16:00 Strange New Worlds
Strange New Worlds
16:00 - 17:30
For centuries people wondered whether the stars in the sky harbor planets of their own. Astronomers began discovering such "exoplanets" in the 1990s and have identified thousands since then. Advances in technology have brought us to the threshold of finding planets similar to Earth, while also revealing bizarre new worlds unlike anything in our Solar System. I will review our current knowledge of the occurrence and orbital characteristics of planets around other stars -- highlighting the most remarkable and unexpected exoplanets -- and describe some implications for planet formation theory. I will also present the current results and prospects for future discoveries based on data from an ongoing NASA mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The lecture will be transmitted on Zoom: https://infn-it.zoom.us meeting ID: 876 1422 9561 please connect some minutes before 4 p.m.